To think back on this year's best "WTF" threads

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I've been inspired by a recent post on AIBU about a DP handing vegetables, bamboo, and mis-matched hard drives full of films as gifts to OP and family (OP, I hope you don't mind me mentioning this as an example! I also hope you get some better gifts this year!)

Among all the more serious stuff, there have been quite a few threads this year which crossed the line into serious WTF territory. Some that spring to mind for me:

The lady whose new neighbour tried to enlist her into befriending his wife who had significant language barriers - and the resulting thread which got weirder by the day! If I remember, the OP was very calm and level headed about the whole thing!

The OP whose DP was in a cycling club which was being followed around by a mysterious self-appointed cheerleader who turned up to their events and who nobody could get rid of!

What have been your favourite threads from the MN twilight zone?

(I'm not a journo, btw, but if anyone feels like paying me for recycled MN posts, do go ahead!)

Dairylea!!!

OP shared a link to an advert of kids hanging upside down eating dairylea and was hysterical about all of the children drying as a result of this irresponsibility. Think she even made a comment about having worked in A&E and witnessing first hand the carnage that it may or may not have caused

And the one about the crying neighbour?

OP had recently moved and neighbour kept coming round, crying on the doorstep, then threw her a tea party, then told her she'd made a cake and was upset when OP didn't turn up

I think the steak dinner for the masseuse was a winner for me

I enjoyed the man who parked his car in OPs drive for several days and then made his wife face her to collect it.

The steak masseuse was my favourite. I cry laughed at that one.

Can't remember the thread, but it ran alongside the second hand changing bag in the charity shop.
On the other thread, someone came on to comment to the OP that bearing in mind, mumsnet was full of premenopausal, frazzled women, discussing a second hand changing bag in a charity shop, how could they possibly know what (whatever the aibu was) was. I cant remember the thread but that comment amused a lot of people.

Oh and the steak one was just bizarre.

@Coffeeneedednow

Can't remember the thread, but it ran alongside the second hand changing bag in the charity shop. On the other thread, someone came on to comment to the OP that bearing in mind, mumsnet was full of premenopausal, frazzled women, discussing a second hand changing bag in a charity shop, how could they possibly know what (whatever the aibu was) was. I cant remember the thread but that comment amused a lot of people.

Oh yes that comment was hilarious.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4290196-weird-letter-received?msgid=108893380#108893380

I thought this had been resolved - apparently not! Very strange.

So many to choose from. Second the steak masseur, many parking ones, the jumping over the fence because the neighbour couldn't be bothered to walk to the footpath.

But one of my favourites was the neighbour's child standing staring from the trampoline and a catchphrase involving Trunky which I now can't remember.

The one where the OPs sibling was luring the Dad to live in a cabin in their backyard. He would sell the family home, give them all the money for them to upgrade to a bigger house and he would live in shed at the bottom of the garden. I often wonder that happened - he was recently widowed and seemed very vulnerable.

Can someone post a link to the steak masseuse thread please?

It wasn’t this year but the Sistine Screamer is my favourite. None have come close to the perfection of that thread.

The steak masseues one was funny and I think it was last year but I still laugh/roll my eyes in equal measure about the people policing what constituted "essentials" and insisting everyone could only go to the shops once a week at the most and one person suggested if you ran out of milk you should put (grated?) cheese in your coffee.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4339095-DH-charged-me-for-Steak-but-Im-a-Veggie

@DuchessSilver

The one whose husband cooked the masseuse a steak!

Please can someone link the cycling one and snapped and farted?

The second floor flat that put in a door going out onto next doors garage roof and made it their garden.

@powershowerforanhour

Oh I want to know about the ones I remember! What happened in the end with the Mumsnetter who didn't want to be the language barrier lady's BFF, and the cycling club cheerleader one, and the neighbours climbing fence to use the garden furniture -IIRC they were a bit scary so the OP didn't want to just tell them to fuck off. It was so weird, the mental image of this well 'ard dodgy family sitting on OP's cane chairs offering each other fruit punch or whatever they were doing like it was just normal behaviour.

All three of these were absolute gems. The garden furniture one wins it for me in wtf terms

[quote lilmishap]www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4339095-DH-charged-me-for-Steak-but-Im-a-Veggie[/quote]
Ta

The recent ones are the weirdest
The op who's neighbour said he wants to take their toddler to bed and cut his ear off and eat it like bacon.
The op who's partner apparently likes little girls because he can't eat a croissant without a plate.
The woman who was really sad her neighbour had cut a tree down
There was a brilliant parking tread this time last year I think, where random people had parked on her drive!
Yes to the changing Christmas to summer and the wierd Santa letter to nursery children stating that Rudolf and his reindeer have had covid tests!
Can't make this up

Oh, also the one where the OP had moved into a new house and the neighbour was insisting that their child was incredibly allergic to dogs so the OP had to keep her dog inside. The neighbour was alleging that even being within ten metres of where a dog had been would cause the child to die. The rules OP had to follow were insane. And the whole street was related to the neighbour.

@Sausagis

The second floor flat that put in a door going out onto next doors garage roof and made it their garden.

Wwwwwwwwwtf

The live updates of the car parked in someone's driveway

There was the sad one about the biting child where the mum had bit her to teach her a lesson and the dad was shouty. I hope she got some help.